That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Rage is essentially vulgar.

A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.

Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.

And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain.

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.